Matt,
So what are you using to provide/inject MPLS support on your network?
I heard there were some open source MPLS projects. Did any of them fly?
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] 5.8Ghz Multi-point radios
We mostly serve MTUs, so we don't have that many subscribers that aren't
managed by our MPLS network. Radio management is important, but much less
important than for the folks doing a more traditional fixed wireless
network.
-Matt
Brad Larson wrote:
Will this network be scaling to 10 subscribers in one town or 1,000 or
more
subscribers over many square miles? The more you scale may mean that
features such as batch processing for easy firmware upgrades and other
management features will save you money in the long run. Ongoing costs and
radio features are seldom talked about when a question like yours is
asked.
X brand is cheaper may not be what you want or need to hear. Brad
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 2:44 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] 5.8Ghz Multi-point radios
We want as much capacity as possible, but certainly 10Mbps minimum. This
is for business customers only and we won't be oversubscribing the
sectors, so there isn't a need to support many subscribers per sector. Not
sure what you are asking in terms of scale, could you be more specific?
VoIP will be used across the radio links however the traffic is
encapsulated in MPLS.
-Matt
Brad Larson wrote:
Matt, How much capacity do you need per 5.8 Ghz sector? Is this a
business
or residential rollout or both? How many subscribers per sector do you
want
to support? How large do you want to scale this network and is managment,
batch firmware loads for radio updates, vlan tagging, voip support
important
to you? Brad
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 7:02 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: [WISPA] 5.8Ghz Multi-point radios
We are looking to start deploying 5.8Ghz multi-point radios at some of
our sites. I am hoping some folks on this list can share experiences and
ideas on what radios might meet our needs. We have experimented with
Canopy and Trango, but would really like some better choices. From a
specification standpoint, Canopy general meets our needs, but we don't
like being constrained on the antenna. We would like to use sectors
bigger than 60 degrees and we would like to use horizontal polarization.
We don't want to use Trango for no other reason than they can't work with
distributors. We really like the flexibility on many 802.11a-based radios
and certainly the price, but the contention aspects of the protocol and
the perception of Wi-Fi being a consumer grade technology stop us from
going that route.
Any thoughts from the list?
-Matt
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